TuskenTower on 21 Jun 2007 13:46:58 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] RAM Block Device

  • From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] RAM Block Device
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:46:55 -0400
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Jon,
There's a technote on this very subject.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/security/chapter_3_section_7.html

Here's a trick for 10.4
http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/torquedev/2006-December/000395.html

BTW, I Googled your question. :)
http://www.google.com/search?q=Intel+Macs+%2Fdev%2Fmem+and+%2Fdev%2Fkmem&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.debian:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a

Amul

On 6/21/07, Jon Nelson <lists@linuxnotes.net> wrote:
Hi All,

On PPC based Macs you could capture the contents of RAM with:

    $ dd if=/dev/mem of=/home/me/mem.bin bs=1024

Now with the Intel Macs /dev/mem and /dev/kmem are no longer there.
Does anyone know how to track down which block device is associated with
RAM?

TIA,

Jon

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